Wringer device



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ram. w. CARROLL, or DES MoInEs, IOWA.

WRINGER DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

,Patented Oct. 4, 1921.

Application filed November 20, 1919. Serial No. 839,455.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL W. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful lVringer Device of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a' wrin'ger device, which may be made as part of a wringer used in connection with wash- 1ng machines or as an attachment thereto, and which is adapted to prevent thetearing of buttons from clothing during the wringin process.

ore particularly it is my object to provide in connection, a wringer having rolls with means including endless belts and rollers, so constructed and mounted, as to guide and. direct the feeding of clothes to the wringer in such manner that buttons will always be presented edgewise'to the wringer rolls, and will therefore never be torn from the garments to which they are fastened.

With these and other objects in View, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a wringer device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical, sectional'view through the same.

Fig. 3 shows a side elevation, illustrating the button saving device with the belts removed and the rollers separated.

Fig. 4 shows a p'erspective'vie'w of a modified form cf my invention; and

Fig. 5 is a vertical, sectional view through the form of the device illustrated in Fig. 4.

In the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference-numeral 10 to indicate generally an ordinary wringer of the type used with domestic washing machines, having the parallel rubber covered rolls 11. VVringers of this type have upright supports at their ends.

In the form of my invention illustrated in Figs. '1, 2 and 3, I have shown arms 12, extending horizontally away from the wringer proper, as illustrated in the drawin s, and arranged parallel with each other 11 substantially the same horizontal. plane. The arms 12 are connected at their ends farthest from the wringer by means of a rotatabl mounted roller 13, preferably provided wit a plurality of blades 14 having blunt edges, which blades are spaced substantially equal distances from each other circumferentially of the roller.

Spaced above each arm 12 is an arm 15, h nged at one end as at: 16 to one of the "up right end members of the wringer.

Springs 17 are employed for tendin to draw the arms 15 and 12 at each end 0 the wrlnger together. i

Between what, I may term, the outer ends of the arms 15 is a rotatably mounted roller 18, similar to the roller 13, and provided with blades 19, similar to the blades 14. Extendin around the roller 13 and the lower wringer-roll 11, as illustrated in Fig. 2, is an endless belt 20 of canvas or any suitable material, which is mounted in place with sufficient stretch or tension to cause it to travel when the lower wringer roll is rotated.

Extended around the roller 18 and the upper wrmger roll is a similar endless belt 21.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have shown a modified form of my invention in which thestructure already described with the exception of the belts, is duplicated on the opposite side of the Wringer, the various parts bein indicated by the reference numerals a ready given to their similar parts with addition of the reference character a. Thus the arms are indicated with the characters 12 and 15 and so on.

In the case of the formof invention shown in Figs. 4 and 5, I have shown extending over the two rollers 13, an endless belt 20', which receives the lower wringer roll between its upper and lower stretches. Extended over the rollers 18 is a similar belt 21, which receives between its upper and lower stretches, the upper wringer roll.

In the practical use of my improved de vice, the clothes are fed between. the rollers 18 and 13 or between the rollers 18 and13, as the case may be, and the buttons will be always pressed to position'in'a plane arallel with the planes of the surfaces of I: 1e endlcss belts, and will be 'fed to the wringer rolls in such position, so that the buttons will never be torn off.

It will be seen that what may be called the outer. ends of the belts have considerable upand down lay between the blades on the. rollers, so that the-buttons will always be moved into proper position for feeding to the wringer rolls. t may'be mentioned that the blades at each upper roller are staggeredwith relation to the blades of the respective lower roller in the operation of the machine and will alwa s tend to remain staggered.

, It is we l-knowp that a common complaint against the ordinary wringers of the t pe herein considered arises from the fact at a great many buttons are torn from clothing advance in the art, by providing a mechanism for feeding the'buttons edgewise to the wringer rolls and thereby preventing the tearing ofi of the buttons.

It will be noted that 'my device does not in any wa interfere withthe ordinary operation of t e wringer, and the parts which I add to the wringer to accomplish my purpose are of simple and inexpensive construction and can be furnished with the wringer or may be used as an attachment.

- Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the various parts of my device without departing from the essential features and purposes of my invention, and it is m intention to cover by my claims any modified forms of'structure or use of mechanical equivalents, which rolls with a pair of rollers space in theme of such wringers. I therefore. believe that I have made a very substantial adjacent to each other, said means includmay be reasonably included within their claim as my invention: I

1'., The combination ofa wrinfer havingl from sai rolls, endless flexible members desi ed to 40 extend around the respective ro and" rollers, and means formed on said rollers for alternately moving the adjacent stretches of the endless members toward and from the rollers as they pass over said means, said means including members staggered relative to each other. 7

2. The combination of a wringer having rolls with a air of endless belts extended over said to ls means for supportin the outer ends of the stretches of said be ts at points spaced from the wringer rolls and for holding said belts with stretches thereof.

ing rollers having blades staggered with re- .lation to each other on respective rollers, and

means tending to draw said rollers toward each other. a I 3. The combination of a wringer, having rolls, a pair of rollers, means for supporting said rollers for permitting their yieldin movement toward and from each other, and a pair of endless belts, said belts being extended over the respective rollers and over the res ective rolls on the wringer, said rollers aving staggered blades. a

Des Moines, Iowa, October 27, 1919.

' PAUL W. CARROLL; 

